http://b.rox.com/blog/2009/11/04/pod-2009/ Pronounce the dot. Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=267 http://b.rox.com/blog/2009/11/04/pod-2009/#comment-462990 b.rox » Blog Archive » Microaffirmations Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:58:11 +0000 http://b.rox.com/?p=3790#comment-462990 [...] don’t think POD 2010 will prove as transformative for me personally as POD 2009 was. How could it be? This is not a real disappointment nor a criticism, just a statement of fact. [...]

]]> http://b.rox.com/blog/2009/11/04/pod-2009/#comment-462852 b.rox » Blog Archive » The Awakening Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:31:19 +0000 http://b.rox.com/?p=3790#comment-462852 [...] as I said, not the stuff of dramatic revelation, nor did it bear fruit rapidly. Looking back on what I wrote at the time, I can see the profundity of the experience was not immediately evident. It took some months to [...]

]]> http://b.rox.com/blog/2009/11/04/pod-2009/#comment-401090 Jack Schick Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:15 +0000 http://b.rox.com/?p=3790#comment-401090 I need go and try to gain the Positive energy you-all are putting into these things.
B….I say Mr. B….as a cynical paranoiac, I urge you to preserve ALL of your
works, especially instructional materials you’ve made like Powerpoints, videos,
etc. in as Durable and Multiple copies as possible, Ideally asking others to do so
as multiple “off-site” storage for emergency worst-case contingency.
I stood up and spoke at a scholarly communication conference a few years back.
I referenced a Popular Science magazine blurb about how this electronic-boom
era may actually end up becoming the WORST-documented time, assuming we
do have some continuity of human culture, because of Reliance upon these
Magnetically-vulnerable media.
I told them that those of us in Earth Sciences can tell you that you are making a Huge assumption that Taken-for-granted Power-grid will always be there.
You see, the leader of this particular conference was pushing for the
cooperation-standards-setting for the new world of Electronic Journals, with
How that’s all going to be paid for, the access and copyrights and fair use and
all of that, speaking to how Universities are going to be expected to de-emphasize the printed word!!! Pretty damn scary.
So, some of us dusty field-work Indiana-Jones types were there arguing for
making sure we have Hard copy libraries always. Stuff that can be dug out from the rubble of post-apocalyptic recovery.
We can have Solar-flare activity which could FRY every electronic device, and
as I commented, we have electronic “Alexandria”.
I brought up the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (see it again B! ),
about how the kids left over from the survivors of the “Pocky-Clypse”
are left with a legend and lore, and a carving in the wall done by their parents,
which is the only writing they know, and have ritually memorized.
The “Witch Doctor” of the kids crew has his magical 45-rpm record suspended
on his magic-wand, and his magical headphones….
The kids are left to raise themselves in isolation.
THIS is what we face for our real future.
Please preserve your work so that it can be Utilized for the instruction
of this very-likely future: No power grid.

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